My House: A Filmmaker Couple Put a London Shoe Factory Back Into Production as Their Home and Studio

The apartment inside was worse for the wear, but local firm Studio McW turned its raw beauty into a camera-ready live/work space.

Jack Harries and Alice Aedy had spent a year and a half sifting through London’s large supply of Victorian flats looking for that "just right" space. "We were about to give up," remembers Alice. And rightfully so. The couple needed a place to call home, but also one for Earthrise Studio, the production company they started with Jack’s brother, Finn, to cover human-interest stories centered on climate change.

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Caitlin Wheeler
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Caitlin Wheeler was a lawyer in Silicon Valley and is now a writer in Durham, NC. She's written about lawyers with zany careers, the North Carolina wine industry, and global architectural design.

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